REVEILLE
Today I found myself walking on a path through the wood
All the while I had been thinking, unaware of where I trod
Idle musing, rumination stole a long stretch of ‘real’ time
(Despite my justification - ‘I was making up a rhyme!’)
On awaking from my absence in day-time somnambulation
I perceived a brighter world as I resumed self navigation
Some days I find myself moving on the path through my life
Wake in wonder that I got here through confusions that were rife
Via myriad of turning points that marked the final track
Made each instant unpredictable, capricious, looking back
There were times when choice was made by random forces in collision
But between, there were those rare moments of wide awake decision
Today I found myself dreaming of a path with purpose known
Such dreams are not of sleep but of a wakefulness full blown
Thus the real and the imagined coexist and integrate
Let there also be uncertainty, the spice to stimulate
While stress tempts anaesthetising mind diversions from the shelf
Let me wake from unawareness and perhaps may find myself
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